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Adult-onset Still's disease.
Autoimmunity reviews - 1 Jul 2014
Gerfaud-Valentin Mathieu, Jamilloux Yvan, Iwaz Jean, Sève Pascal
Abstract excerpt
First described in 1971, adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a rare multisystemic disorder considered as a complex (multigenic) autoinflammatory syndrome. A genetic background would confer susceptibility to the development of autoinflammatory reactions to environmental triggers. Macrophage and neutrophil activation is a hallmark of AOSD which can lead to a reactive hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. As in the...
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